IcePing
[Utilities, C++, Linux, Windows, QNX]

An equivalent to Unix ping for Orca components and Ice infrastructure. More...

An equivalent to Unix ping for Orca components and Ice infrastructure.

Checks if an Orca interface is reachable by trying to invoke ice_ping method available for all Ice objects.

Provides

• none

Requires

• none

Usage is kept similar to ping. Ping tries to reach a destination specified by a hostname or an IP address. Iceping tries to reach a destination specified by the stringified proxy to an object.

This utility is self-documenting.

$ iceping --help

Dependancies

• none

We intentionally do not use libOrcaIce so that when one component cannot connect to another iceping can be considered a somewhat independent test of reachability.

Configuration

Only one configuration option is required: how to find the IceGrid Registry. By default, iceping tries to load ~/.orcarc file which typically contains this information. Optionally, a dedicated file can be written. Create a file and name it iceping.cfg

Ice.Default.Locator=IceGrid/Locator: default -p 12000

Run iceping utility with the custom config file:

$ iceping -r -f iceping.cfg

Authors

Alex Makarenko